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KDE Plasma 6.3 Receives Final Polishing Prior To Release Next Week

Phoronix - Sat, 02/08/2025 - 19:16
The KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop has received a lot of last minute polishing and fixes ahead of its planned release next week. Plasma 6.3 is scheduled for its stable debut next Tuesday on 11 February...

FreeBSD 13.5 Beta Begins Preparing For The Last Of The FreeBSD 13 Series

Phoronix - Sat, 02/08/2025 - 19:06
The FreeBSD 13.5 release dance has begun for closing out the FreeBSD 13 series...

Zellij: A Modern Terminal Multiplexer for Linux

Tecmint - Sat, 02/08/2025 - 13:51
The post Zellij: A Modern Terminal Multiplexer for Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In the world of Linux, terminal multiplexers are essential tools for developers, system administrators, and power users, as they allow

The post Zellij: A Modern Terminal Multiplexer for Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Wine 10.1 Released With Many Changes: Fixes For Battle.net, Continued Bluetooth Driver

Phoronix - Sat, 02/08/2025 - 07:57
Following last month's release of Wine 10.0 as the newest annual stable release of Wine for running Windows games/applications on Linux and other platforms, Wine 10.1 is out today. Wine 10.1 kicks off the bi-weekly development release cycle trek that will culminate with the release of Wine 11.0 next year...

GNOME's LocalSearch Metadata Extractor Ditches GStreamer For FFmpeg

Phoronix - Sat, 02/08/2025 - 05:43
While the GNOME project has long been closely tied to the GStreamer multimedia framework, GNOME's LocalSearch has decided to abandon its GStreamer use in favor of using FFmpeg/libav directly...

IO_uring Zero-Copy Receive Support Ready For Linux 6.15 Networking

Phoronix - Sat, 02/08/2025 - 02:57
It's looking like IO_uring zero-copy receive support should be ready for the Linux 6.15 kernel cycle this spring...

Vulkan Cooperative Matrix Merged For RDNA4 GPUs With RADV, DCC Support Inches Closer

Phoronix - Sat, 02/08/2025 - 00:28
Last week when RADV lead developer Samuel Pitoiset with Valve was commenting on the AMD RDNA4 state with the Mesa RADV driver it was noted that Vulkan cooperative matrix support, Vulkan Video encode/decode, and DCC support were still missing. But in the past week one of the items is now crossed off the list and another is continuing to see new patch activity...

GCC 15 Compiler Showing Off Nice Performance Improvements On AMD Zen 5

Phoronix - Fri, 02/07/2025 - 23:13
With the GCC 15 compiler having progressed to its final stage of development prior to the GCC 15.1 stable release in the likely March~April time frame, I've begun testing the updated GNU Compiler Collection on some test systems. Overall GCC 15 is looking nice and on AMD Zen 5 "znver5" in particular seeing some solid gains over GCC 14. Here are some initial performance benchmarks of the GCC 15 compiler.

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